18. To render relief to the distressed and to help the
oppressed make amends for the great sins.
19. O Son of Adam, when you see that your Lord, the
Glorified, bestows His favor upon you, while you disobey Him, you should fear
Him (take warning that His wrath may not turn those very blessings into
misfortunes).
20. Often your utterances and your expressions of your face
leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.
21. When you get ill, do not get nervous about it and try as
much as possible to be hopeful.
22. The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not
to make a show of it.
23. When you have to depart from this world and have to meet
death (eventually) then why wish delay (why feel nervous about death!)
24. Take warning! He has not exposed so many of your sinful
activities that it appears as if He has forgiven you (it may be He has given you time to repent.)
25. A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious
person is worse than vice.
26. Be generous but not extravagant, be economical but not
miserly.
27. The best kind of wealth is to give up excessive desires.
28. One who says unpleasant things about others, will he
quickly become a target of their scandal.
29. Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of Allah
for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.
30. A wise man first thinks then speaks and a fool first
speaks then thinks.
31. One of the companions of Imam Ali (a.s.) fell ill. Imam
Ali (a.s.) called upon him and thus advised him: “Be thankful to Allah, He has
made this illness a thing to atone your sins, because a disease in itself has
nothing to bring reward to anyone, it merely expiates one’s sins and so far as
reward is concerned, one has to earn it through good word and good deeds. The
Almighty Lord grants Paradise to His creatures on account of their piety and
noble thoughts.”
32. Blessed is the man who always kept life after death in
his view, who remembered the Day of Judgment through all his deeds, who led a
contented life, and who was happy with lot that Allah has destined for him.
33. If I cut a faithful Muslim into pieces, to make him hate
me, he will not turn into my enemy, and if I give all the wealth in this world
to a hypocrite to make him my friend, he will not befriend me. It is so because
the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.) said: “O Ali! No faithful Muslim will ever be
your enemy and no hypocrite will ever be your friend.”
Source: Nahjul
Balagha
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